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Even if you have the most full-featured corporate wellness suite, your results will still fall flat if you don’t get your employees to engage with your programs.
That’s why we created A Step Ahead, a team-based walking game for companies. Your employees use their real world steps and exercise to go on missions in the post-apocalyptic wasteland inhabited by zombies, alien invaders, rogue robots and much more. A Step Ahead is used by some of the biggest companies in the world because of its world-class engagement.
Get the best engagement you’ve ever had. We average 94.4% sustained engagement.
Get the best participation you’ve ever had. We average a 32.5% participation increase.
Create a challenge online in seconds or let our concierge service handle everything for you.
Get your in-person, remote, and distributed employees to participate together.
Create healthy habits that result in healthier employees who cost less to insure.
Get more out of your other wellness initiatives because your employees are more active.
The Game-Based Solution That Gets You Next-Level Engagement
“Gamification” is just a marketing buzzword. If you want next-level engagement, like 94.4% retention… you don’t want gamified, you want a game.
Spend Steps To Move Your Team
Players sync their real-world steps, which are used as currency for team movement in the game. Step goals are per team member, so teams of varying sizes can all play together.
Spend Exercise To Battle Obstacles
Players sync their real-world workouts to generate in-game Power, which is used to battle obstacles and heal teammates when damage is taken.
Race From Safehouse to Safehouse
Players start each week in a new safehouse, with their team’s steps driving progression across the game board and unlocking new chapters in the ongoing story.
Stay Ahead to Survive
Players are chased from behind by an enemy mob, and getting caught can have consequences. For example, in our Outbreak™ series, players who are caught by the zombie horde can be turned into zombies, who must then choose to walk their way back to health or chase their coworkers as a member of the zombie horde.
Automatic Step Syncing
A Step Ahead syncs steps and exercise from all your favorite wearables and apps via Apple Health (on iOS) and Google Fit (on Android), including Apple Watch, Fitbit, Garmin and many more. Employees can even track their steps using just their smartphone, no fitness wearable required.
Easy In-App Registration
Employees simply enter your organization’s personalized Invite Code into the app. Getting started couldn’t be easier.
Team-Based Gameplay
Employees form into teams in app, and gameplay intelligently scales to team size so teams of different sizes can play together. Teams can be local, remote, or blended. A Step Ahead is location agnostic, so teams can be comprised of employees from around the globe.
Unique Avatars
Each employee crafts their own in-game avatar. From the body type, to hair, facial features and clothing, everything is customizable with millions of possible combinations. As employees complete challenges, they earn new loot for their avatar, creating a character that’s special and unique over time.
Leaderboards
Teams score based on a number of factors, including how quickly they reach each safehouse, reaching their daily team step goal and more. A Step Ahead is a game with strategy, and understanding teams’ positions on the leaderboard is key to winning.
Divisions
Nobody wants to see 500 teams in a challenge. It’s overwhelming and can cause participants to feel lost. Our advanced divisions system allows large organizations to have huge participation with manageable challenge sizes. Divisions can be any size needed, and can even compete against each other on a special leaderboard.
Immersive Story
Each A Step Ahead challenge is a mission in an ongoing storyline. With multiple challenge series to choose from, your employees can adventure to uncover the mysteries of the zombie outbreak, battle a rogue A.I. and more in dozens of unique adventures in an ever expanding fictional universe.
TruStep™
Our proprietary step tracking technology intelligently discerns between steps that are synced from a user’s fitness tracker/pedometer and steps that are manually typed in, allowing you to limit manually typed in steps, or eliminate them altogether for a challenge with 100% verified activity.
Manage Your Challenge Online With a User-Friendly Admin
You have complete control to manage every aspect of your walking challenge with our online Mission Manager. The most-used features are included for free with every challenge, and more advanced tools available as an optional upgrade.
Free Admin Features
Team Manager
An easy-to-use drag and drop editor that allows you to create and manage teams, move players and more.
Start Date
Edit your start date at any time until your challenge starts.
Add Seats
Easily add more participant seats to your challenge.
Send Invites
Send beautifully designed invite emails directly from the admin tools.
Manage Invite Settings
Control whether players can purchase their own tickets and invite others to the challenge.
Upgrades Available
Custom Step Caps Via TruStep™
Customize how many steps your players are able to earn each day, including additional limits on how many of those steps can be manually entered.
Weekly Reporting
Get detailed weekly team and player reports in addition to the included end-of-challenge report.
Premium Registration Materials
Easily generate a premium registration poster (PDF) and registration emails.
Custom Push Notifications
Send custom messages to your participants in the ASA app via push notifications.
Consultation Call
Schedule a one-time setup call with one of our mission specialists to make sure you’re getting the most of your A Step Ahead challenge.